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May 27th, 2008
07:51 pm - ramon dictation
there is nothing geeky about smart cars, they rawk.
that guys gonna be my new number one on myspace.
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May 8th, 2008
08:05 am - somethin' new to look at
Rosenquist makes the big paintings, that can be read as filmic cuts, and the way that Rosenquist juxtaposes the images on his work reminded me of some of the things that Francis Bacon does in some paintings, where a visual cut (sometimes in the form of an object or an animal) is made on the canvas with color and geometric positioning. This reminded me of the obsession Bacon had with Eisenstein’s “Battleship Potekmin” particularly the scene of the woman screaming and the camera close up on her mouth, and how Bacon professed to be haunted by that image. I think another thing that leaks into these ideas is the nature of dreaming, and how Murch thinks that the reason we can watch films and have them make sense is due to dreaming preparing us for extreme jumps in perspective on many levels. Maybe the increasing rate of image exposure that spans massive distances of time and space sort of jars the senses into a creative mode of systemic recognition or at least homogenizes the visual value of things.
Something about Vonnegut too with his alien creatures from Slaughterhouse 5 that could see in time, an idea that parallels Giacometti’s perceptions of sculptures that as objects in space grew and receded into the distance.
I think I like Warhol for similar reasons as I like Klein. I like how ambiguous they can be, and I like it when they make a joke out of the things that they make and do. Warhol can be really funny when the press is interviewing him. He shrugs off questions onto his starlets, and they almost always have some vapid response - or sometimes Warhol just completely ignores someone’s questions and looks around.
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June 14th, 2006
01:34 pm - in ireland
i am in ireland till july 8th.
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May 4th, 2006
February 19th, 2006
06:33 pm - wildlife
i saw a coyote today.
Current Mood: ![[mood icon]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/mood/neko/kaokitty/sleepy.gif) sleepy
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February 17th, 2006
10:24 am - common problem
my sense of time is almost always completely fucked. i have to stop everything and focus to discern exactly what my position in time is and i have to focus hard to plan accordingly.
my sense of direction is almost nonexsistant. well, actually it is entirely reversed.
numbers tend to evade my comprehension.
i drive based on visual clues, so come nightfall in an unfamiliar setting, i tend to make wrong turns.
i dislike legal documents, bank papers, applications, forms, questionnaires, credit card companies, telemarketers, internet spam, but i enjoy (appreciate) deadlines, and parameters.
i want to remove these problems from my day to day life. and work hard on problems that my brain can process.
Current Mood: sleepy
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February 7th, 2006
12:31 pm - media!
Primer was really good, i am confused by it though. I am interested in its ideas all the same. They remind me of Philip Dick and Ariel Pink and Boards of Canada.
Too bright and too dreamy, unreal enough to make it memorable.
I liked the editing and the acting too. Sometimes they would cut around too rapidly when they might have benefitted from slowing down the pacing.
Went to the study abroad office today, decided against the Japan options, but in favor of another, a trip to Ireland.
Gonna chop my hairs on friday.
Still gotta go to the Art Musuem though.
Current Mood: sleepy
Current Music: Dresden Dolls - Coin-Operated Boy
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February 5th, 2006
06:45 pm - little jesus songs
rants below! you've been warned:
( this is short, but not in the sense that you have to read a lot of words. )
Current Mood: sleepy
Current Music: Califone - Wingbone
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January 2nd, 2006
10:17 pm - lots of stuff
i got a lot of new books, i am really excited to start reading all of them - although my pile keeps getting bigger and i never really make a good dent in it. its good though cause i have all these vague things on my mind and i need to organize thoughts or at least get new ones.
i like the new my morning jacket, especially this son "lay low"
just sorta been getting ready for school, working, paling around with jess and dan, thinking, etc.
best buy frustrates me, i am gonna try to use my gift cards online i guess since everything is picked through at the one by us. maybe i should go to a best buy in an area with a more affluent demographic. i wonder if they cater to their environment or if they have the same stock everywhere.... although i cant see why that would be the case.
so many albums i want to get! my list doubled or tripled over break. jess and i were talking about how we have sorta stayed the same while a lot of other kids have changed a fair amount. i would imagine thats what most people would say about everyone else around them. if you don't change in relation to someone else at least.
i tend to get the sense that my environment holds me back so that other people can profit. i am still the same commodity i always was. actually, more-so now.
i got a lot of books! i am so excited~~! :D
haha this is all just mind cleansing gibberish.
Current Mood: sleepy
Current Music: Lay Low - My Morning Jacket
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December 25th, 2005
10:18 am - wilco live.
i am sorta sure that i was at at least part of the Kicking Television shows ... maybe my dear cousin can confirm this? in any case, this is really nice.
Current Mood: sleepy
Current Music: Company In My Back - Wilco
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December 2nd, 2005
04:06 pm - sampling! and trampling!!!!
with all the music sampling that goes on in music, wouldn't it be great if you could just "cite" your sources (like a research paper!) and that would be the end of it - instead of the money grubbing bastardocity of music rights?
tonight - islands with jon and tory :D
tomarrow - x-mas town with susie and papa and mom!? :D
sunday- work :(
these are from a little vegan potluck thingy:
come join us on the small couch
alberto's magical cat's, he is the king of all the magical cats.
tomomi hugs a cat
ben and mookie hug each other and rory exposes them
__________
and this is some food i made:
rice, beans, tortilla, egg = not too bad.
Current Mood: sleepy
Current Music: Salainen paikka - Kemialliset Ystävät
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November 29th, 2005
04:50 pm
Ten Things I'll Always Remember
1. that i am terrible at remembering names
2. when in rome...
3. don't touch it because it probably has germs
4. my old address
5. to leave early to account for traffic
6. my old phone number
7. my social security number
8. things that put hair on my chest
9. 9 = rhyme
10. that one brick in that one taco bell
Nine Things That Make Me Laugh
1. Dan Love and Jessica Anderson's quips
2. Adam Ganzer
3. Pangisms
4. Monkeys / Kitties
5. Tory's evil technique!
6. My family (in a good way)
7. The Office
8. One Piece
9. Frank saying "wild thing!"
Eight Memories from My Childhood
1. getting "stewart little" from my grandma
2. going to "Anna banana's" house back in preschool / going to adam's house and playing NES
3. running around naked and mom rounding us up for the subsequent bath.
4. watching the batman tv show in our old old house
5. sharing a room with my brother in the old old house and my big red blanket
6. susie taking us places when she baby-sat us
7. going to the air-base with my dad and eating sore throat lozanges like candy and playing with the toys on some guys desk. (and pete's office)
8. getting tomatoes and cookies from our old old neighbors house / playing in the kid pool and building the diving board out of huge block things
Seven Accidents You’ve Had
1. There are no accidents,
(2. except loving accidents.)
3. Envy
4. Pride
5. Anger
6. Greed
7. Sloth
Six Favorite CDs (that you want people to know about)
1. i dunno something like ... metallica or tool or something
2. maybe some godspeed you black emperor
3. i like neil young right now
4. elephant 6 stuff is good
5. definitely anything jesus realted
6. the icegnomes!
Five of Your Biggest Pet Peeves
1. dirty people/things on my stuff.
2. clicking / clacking / tapping
3. wiggling / whistling
4. boring stories (mostly my own)
5. humans
Four Things You’ve Cried Over
1. forest gump (...but i know what love is!)
2. commercials
3. dead gerbil
4. cutting onions!
Three Favorite T.V. Shows
1. Seinfeld
2. The Office
3. Cheers
The Top 2 Movies
1. Mononoke Hime
2. Life Aquatic / A Mighty Wind
One Quote To Live By:
"You can pick your friends, and you can pick your nose - but you can't pick your friends nose."
Current Music: Hapmoniym 2 - Magical Power Mako
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November 15th, 2005
01:21 pm - a journal is for updating, so i remember.
"There's a Wocket in my Pocket!" is my favorite Dr. Seuss book.
I overheard some kids on the 'L' talking about Chunsa, it was sorta surreal. What am I doing in a city? I don't know who or how I associate with anyone, it all seems so random.
Sketchbook Chicago was last night too, it was funny and a good time, plus Ramon and I got a pizza again and I devoured most of it. I really want falafel tonight but the money be tight.
I am pretty frustrated with UIC. I do have decent classes, but i want / need animation. I am tired of taking relatively low level art classes cause most of the stuff I want is full. I need me an illustration course. I want to move to some crazy art school in california or in europe (or japan, or anywhere) and just take ridiculous amounts of classes where i learn and learn and constantly draw and practice.
Drawing II: Intermediate
Introduction to Computer Graphics
Video I
Art History II
Next semester if i live at home I wont have 400+ a month in bills plus i can probably work two extra days.... that would be lots of work but pretty great. Damn, i hope i can sublet...
If not, I might not be able to go to japan... and thats nooooooooo goood.
Current Mood: sleepy
Current Music: They Taught Me - Ja'afar Hassan
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November 8th, 2005
09:56 am - bullet vision!
tory came in to see you at work on sunday
then later you went to eat with dan at chipotle, then you guys went to Dairy Queen and sat in the car with the radio on and talked about stuff.
Current Mood: sleepy
Current Music: Visions - Oriental Sunshine
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October 30th, 2005
10:05 pm - Halloween fun reaggeatron juan!
my new favorite picture!
runner up favorite picture!
pang wore a hat for halloween, ramon was an awesome pirate cop mouse buddah caped scarfed avenger.
dan was a hulked out aquabat!
alberto was a muskateer!
juan was a zoro!
i was a dino-sour! with "the thing" fists and from the 4th grade!
tory was miracle whip!
beezer was heinz catsup!
and dan kept me sane and safe on my ride home. he is a dude.
love,
chris.
Current Mood: sleepy
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October 29th, 2005
08:29 pm - hrm.
Current Mood: sleepy
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October 26th, 2005
08:38 am - open spigot! OPAN! PIGEON!
THE LITTLE BUGS ALL TRY TO GET IN BUT THE SCREEN BLOCKS THEM AGAIN AND AGAIN, AND THEY JUST WANT TO BE WARM BUT THEY KNOW THEY ARE GOING TO DIE, CAUSE WE CANT LET THEM IN CAUSE THEN WE HAVE TO COMPROMISE OUR LIFESTYLE AND THATS JUST THE PITS KIDS.
THE SQUIRREL IS TRYING OT MAKE A NEST FOR THE WINTER AND HE IS HIDING ALL HIS NUTS IN LITTLE CACHES FOR THE SPRING BUT WE FIND THEM AND TAKE THEM AND DONT GIVE HIM ANYTHING BACK CAUSE WE HAVE FOOD AND WE DONT THINK ABOUT IT.
A GUY KEEPS BUMPING AGAINST THE DOOR FRAME CAUSE HIS PERCEPTION IS OFF AND HE IS GETTING A BRUISE, BUT EACH TIME HE THINKS HE CAN MAKE IT THROUGH DESPITE HIS LYING EYES.
I feel pretty good, i got a lot done this week so far, but still a lot to go in the grand scheme of things. I have had a lot of food this week too which is a little weird... i feel too well fed haha. tonight i am going to take a train to aurora borealis to hang out with tory and her sister and one of their good friends brian and we are going to see a movie and maybe do some hhaalloowweenn shopping.
Yesterday the project went well but alberto didn't get to punch me cause my legs gave out to early. I noticed that as soon as i got the idea in my head to stop, my legs just gave up. mind over matter boys and girls. mind over matter - applicable in many aspects but ideally , best for moments of physical duress.
not for sustaining presence of mind in social situations.
love,
chris.
Current Mood: sleepy
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October 22nd, 2005
05:59 pm - hey fucktards
the whole universe has to make everything monstrously more affordable, or stop complaining about people stealing shit.
small changes can go a long way in making the whole world a better place.
instead the trend is back-ass-wards.
i dont feel bad about stealing music, and i wouldn't feel bad about stealing a fucking tv or a car. i know it wont affect the companies, it will only affect the my peers, and my peers are assholes too.
Current Mood: sleepy
Current Music: hmm something i didnt pay for
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October 21st, 2005
10:26 am - some sketches, working hard!
( BIG FILES be careful. )
Current Mood: sleepy
Current Music: Transmalabar - Ghedalia Tazartes
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October 6th, 2005
05:21 pm - diversitizeocity scandal! :D
lost another soccer game- it was fun though - went to soul veg in a overcrowded mini, spent way to much to be fed by a bunch of hypocrits, enjoyed a conversation involving terrible jokes and making some "hardcore" kid think we were losers, went to see mirrormask, the lead actress sucked. the imagery was great.
here are some pick-tures:
the pang face!
ahhhh! refreshing! blarafsafsfsfgsggdffd!
thats alberto's butt that was wet from swea- oh wait... wet from "the grass"
riiiiight.
jon and I had to wait for drea to go see mirrormask.
alberto got all pretty for the event.
this is a rant:
( REGGAE-TRON! )
yeah so then tory and I went to itto sushi and saw scary spiders while waiting for the bus and it was pretty awesome. went to lou mitchell's AGAIN and stole a lot of more donuts than necessary. it was nicccceee
Current Mood: sleepy
Current Music: De Soto de Son - Animal Collective
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